“FAKE NEWS” SHOWS like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are available on the basic cable channel Comedy Central. While their nightly audiences are not as large as those of other basic cable news shows like The O’Reilly Factor, critics argue that the satiric shows have become a major source for news for the eighteen- to thirty-four-year-old age group because of their satire and sharp-witted lampoon of politics and news media.